Dinosaur Discovery at Bittern Preschool.
Image: Holly Gardner
Source: Museum Victoria
Museum Victoria’s Discovery Program recently brought its Dinosaurs and Fossils presentation to Bittern Preschool.
On Wednesday 7 June the travelling program’s arrival coincided with that of Victorian Minister for the Arts, Mary Delahunty MP, and Hastings MLA Rosy Buchanan.
Preschool students sang dinosaur songs to Ms Delahunty and Ms Buchanan (both of whom joined the class in doing the Dinosaur Stomp dance) and engaged with fossils, dinosaur bones, replicas and other dino-related specimens from Museum Victoria’s palaeontology collections.
A mobile outreach service that travels more than 80,000km each year in two brightly-painted vans, the Discovery Program visits communities across the state. It provides access to Museum Victoria’s collections for those who find it difficult to visit museums, for reasons including age and geographical distance.
From initial visits to a handful of aged care facilities over twenty years ago, the program now reaches over 34,000 people each year, bringing items from the Museum’s collections of more than 16 million objects, along with skilled Discovery staff to present them.